Dallas, Texas 75229

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Title: Director of Budget and Resource Planning

Department: Business Affairs

Job Objectives: The position’s primary responsibility is the development, implementation and monitoring of the annual operating budget of the institution. The position has institution wide responsibilities and relationships. Under general direction, is responsible for resource planning and implementation; provides general management and direction for the budget and reporting staff and their designated projects.

The development phase is an enterprise wide activity managed by the position resulting in the annual operating assumptions and strategies for the following fiscal year. While the entire institution contributes to the development phase, it is the responsibility of the position to construct a decision support system from the contributions for use by the executive leadership of the institution. The position plays a leadership role in developing financial modeling and communicating potential financial outcomes and results on new programs and services through a resource planning decision support system to the university leadership under the guidance of the Vice President for Business Affairs.

The implementation phase consists of translating the approved assumptions and strategies from the strategic planning efforts into a line-item operating budget. To accomplish this task the position provides vehicles of communication, intricate models, and enterprise wide systems that move through the levels of senior leadership down through their respective divisions. The outcome of implementation requires accuracy in the final preparation of the line-item operating and capital budget which is documented and presented for the Board of Trustee approval.

The management and monitoring phase consists of comparing budget to actual performance and trending data for forecasting. The position to offer leadership in the management and reporting of budget to actual reporting systems and will insure the integration of complex; multiple databases are utilized for ongoing dashboards and metric reporting.